Would Nurturing Western Classical Music Be Good For India?

Columnist Anil Dharker: “[If] any art form struggles to survive in our country, it is western classical music. … Sometimes you wonder if western classical music has survived all these years only because Parsis live so long. … But there is an even more basic reason why soaking in western classical music might do us good, and this has to do with the very structure of their music and ours.”